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"How to blog, get tenure and prosper"
24 July 08 09:57 AM | eScience | 0 Comments   
One of the discussions that frequently happens at the eScience/Science 2.0 type meetings is how does academia incorporate the Web 2.0 technologies (Blogging, etc) into the tenure based reward system - these are technologies that change how quickly/accessible Read More...
Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing Program (SciDAC) tutorials on Friday, July 18th
11 July 08 04:08 PM | eScience | 0 Comments   
Microsoft Research is hosting the DOE 2008 Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing Program (SciDAC) tutorials on Friday, July 18 th .   If interested in attending, please register at the SciDAC Tutorials Registration . SciDAC Tutorial Agenda Read More...
The Petabyte Problem: Scrubbing, Curating and Publishing Big Data
03 July 08 02:38 PM | eScience | 0 Comments   
Carol Minton Morris has a good entry on the HatCheck Newsletter on Alex Szalay's keynote, “Scientific Publishing in the Era of Pedabyte Data,” at JCDL on June 19, 2008.  I always enjoy listening to Alex and hearing his perspective, especially Read More...
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Windows HPC Server 2008 Beta 2 is Here
23 May 08 08:32 AM | eScience | 0 Comments   
Windows HPC Server 2008 Beta 2 is available on Microsoft Connect and Ryan Waite goes into detail on much of the new stuff.  I'm really excited to start seeing scientists utilize and evaluate the new version - I think many of the new pieces especially Read More...
SciDAC Tutorials - July 18 at Microsoft Research
29 April 08 11:44 AM | eScience | 1 Comments   
On July 18th, Microsoft Research will be hosting the tutorials for the 2008 SciDAC Conference .  SciDAC - Scientific Discovery through Advanced  Computing is part of DOE's Office of Science research program to "support multidisciplinary Read More...
Fluxnet move to Silverlight v2.0 Beta 1
28 April 08 11:25 AM | eScience | 0 Comments   
Savas has been coding again :-) - he's updated the FLUXNET Data set visualization to Silverlight  v2.  Fluxnet move to Silverlight v2.0 Beta 1 It's been a while since I touched the Fluxnet code. Given that the original release was built on Silverlight Read More...
4th IEEE Intl. Conference on e-Science, 2008 and Microsoft eScience Workshop
24 April 08 11:46 AM | eScience | 0 Comments   
This year the 5th Microsoft eScience workshop will be co-located with Intl. Conference on e-Science.  The workshop and conference will be Dec 7-12th in Indianapolis at IUPUI.  This will be another great workshop and conference. Links to previous Read More...
[Papers] Supporting Finite Element Analysis with a Relational Database Backend; There is Life beyond Files
08 April 08 11:00 AM | eScience | 1 Comments   
In a discussion I had today around ways to advance a scientific problem I was reminded of Jim Gray and Gerd Heber's trilogy - Supporting Finite Element Analysis with a Relational Database Backend .  The three papers are really a good resource for Read More...
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Autonomous Monitoring of Vulnerable Habitats
03 April 08 04:35 PM | eScience | 0 Comments   
There is a new article on the MSR Cambridge project on Skomer Island - Microsoft scientists unveil new technology to give early warning of sensitive species’ response to changing environments . Also interesting is the use of the ScatterWeb .NET SDK from Read More...
TED Talks - Roy Gould: WorldWide Telescope
28 March 08 10:00 AM | eScience | 0 Comments   
I realized I hadn't posted the link to the TED Talk on the WorldWide Telescope   Science educator Roy Gould and Microsoft's Curtis Wong gi ve an astonishing sneak preview of Microsoft's new WorldWide Telescope -- a technology that combines feeds Read More...
What makes Scoble cry: Microsoft’s WorldWide Telescope?
15 February 08 03:45 PM | eScience | 0 Comments   
In case you didn't see the blog entry on ZDNet about WWT What makes Scoble cry: Microsoft’s WorldWide Telescope? , I can tell you the work that Curtis and Jonathan have done is amazing...stay tuned. Robert Scoble posted about a Microsoft product that Read More...
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[Paper] Statistical Resolution of Ambiguous HLA Typing Data
08 February 08 12:28 AM | eScience | 1 Comments   
A MSR Tech Report is now available on Statistical Resolution of Ambiguous HLA Typing Data - Here's the non-technical summary of the paper: At the core of the human adaptive immune response is the train-to-kill mechanism in which specialized immune cells Read More...
TechREACH - Middle School program to increase interest in STEM
06 February 08 02:49 PM | eScience | 0 Comments   
It's great to see programs like TechREACH reaching out to middle school students to get them interested in STEM subjects.  TechREACH , a Washington State program, increases middle school students’ interest in science, technology, engineering, Read More...
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TerraServer Sample: A LINQ Provider
28 January 08 09:15 PM | eScience | 1 Comments   
Ran across this post on Charlie Calvert's Community Blog using TerraServer's Web Services with LINQ...why is this interesting to me - many moons ago (before .NET was officially launched) I approached Tom Barclay who was running TerraServer and convinced Read More...
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Silverlight-based cycle stealing
28 January 08 12:12 PM | eScience | 1 Comments   
Savas and I had talked about this idea of using Silverlight-based cycle stealing and wondered how well it would work. It's good to see this article on CodeProject about Legion: Build your own virtual super computer with Silverlight by Daniel Vaughan . Read More...
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